As everybody knows,
the Spurs are the Champs of 2007, almost effectively making them a dynasty,
being the only team to win the championship 4 times since '99. As you also know, Tony Parker was named
Finals MVP. It's funny because I just saw the
reviews of the network rankings from ABC and as it turns out this year's final
was actually WORSE than the '05 playoffs between the Spurs and Pistons. Stuff like that makes me wonder wither
or not the pistons meeting in the finals with the spurs would have been more
entertaining than the Cav's meeting them instead.
My dad was saying
that the spurs and pistons aren't good for the NBA, and it now looks like that
he was right, but unfortunaly for the NBA, they can't simply set up failer for
the Spurs like they can for the Pistons. Ya that's right, I
said it, that series with the pistons and cavs had to be rigged. There is no way a team lead by one man,
even when he elevates his game 3 steps about Normal can a team like that beat
an actual TEAM. Then again, like I said, the spurs are
more consistent in all that they do compared to the pistons and the on again
off again mentality. Really all you had to
do was wait for the pistons to loose there focus and you had them. While the spurs never loose there
focus. I will tell you this though, had the
pistons meet in the finals with the spurs, the series would have gone 7 games
again, although I'm not sure who would have won it, but it would have been
watched more than last time.
Right now the fan
base of the NBA is shifting towards fast paced, action packed basketball and
two teams really don't fit into that mold: the Pistons and Spurs. The pistons are trying to adapt but
doing it very poorly while the Spurs are sticking to there guns and still
winning. Its this kind of mentality that has
people in Detroit wondering wither or not it was a good idea to get rid of
Larry Brown and let Ben go via free agency. For one thing that
still rings true wither it be popular or not is that Offence sells tickets
while Defense wins Championships. I know a lot of
people don't want to hear that right now but its still the truth and the Spurs and
Pistons are living proof of that. Why just look at the
fact that the Spurs have won it 4 times and the pistons won it once (when they
were on there defensive philosophy). Unfortuanly though
the pistons have turned from what they know best while the spurs have stood by
it thus winning them four 'ships while the pistons only have 1 to show from it. The only way the pistons will return to
greatness is that we MUST get rid of those that practice the dark arts of
offence first/ no defense. Argo we must get rid
of Philip Sanders, as long as he commands the helm the pistons will but only
gets so far as the Eastern Conference.
Speaking of making a
step in some kind of direction, the pistons also announced today that they have
traded small forward Carlos Delfino to the Toronto Raptors for 2 first round
draft picks in 2009 and 2011. What kind of trade
was that!! I don't know what's going on in Joe D's
mind but I hope it's good. Then again he as been
known to make trades like this that doesn't seem to work now but will in the
long run. I just hope this cloud has a silver
lining in it. ESPN has said that it might have been
done to make way for people such as Alex Acker who has had a phenomenal season
over in Europe. Others say it could be for Grant Hill
who will be a free agent this year as well. Personally I was very
surprised to see that it wasn't the sorriest person on the team to go first but
a still very promising young man. Coiencendtly it's
also causing a stir of racial satire due to the fact that Delfino was
Argentinean and there for the only person who wasn't black. As currently as it stands, Detroit is the only team in
the NBA that has all black people and a roster full of Americans, and boy is
that starting to piss people off. More importantly
though is the fact that Nazr Mohammad is still on the team. A Person who should
have been let go first has been kept in favored of trading a person who will
probably thrived if giving the chance.
All that to say that
I just hope that Joe D can do these top four things: 1 is to make GOOD draft
picks. This year we have two first round draft
picks, 15 and 27, and with this year's draft behind deep as the 7th layer of hell, I hope we make some good
decisions. The second is resign Billups and
Webber, for as good as we are, we are nothing without Billups and with Webber
there is no body else out there that's better suited for the position then he
is so we need both right now. The third is to get
rid of Nazr, I don't care how we do it just get rid of him, hell release him or
do something cause he will not help us. A side note to
number 3 is to get Grant Hill back, now that we got rid of Carlos we will need
someone coming off the bench for Tayshane and Grants the best way to go. The final part is to do something about
our lack-luster coaching staff. I know we're not
going to get rid of Flip (which we really should) but the staff really needs to
be refocused in the right direction, the direction of a championship. The way we played during the regular
season should have shown ten fold in the playoffs just like the Spurs did. We cannot afford to have a staff that
lets the pistons just simply turn it on and off at will. It must be on at all
times to win, and with that I'm going to sign off. I might have just
exausetedteh web page from this blog
I'm
out, like Carlos Delfino to the Raptors
